Merchants warned on card skimming scam

Merchants in the Torono area are being warned about a new method of tampering with point-of-sales (POS) devices.They say they’ve recovered some tampered sales machines that read the PINs of debit and credit cards. A micro magnetic strip reader has been inserted on the plastic opening of the chip reader guide, which allows the magnetic strip to be read. Wireless technology has been added to transmit customers’ information using Bluetooth, negating the need for a camera device to capture PINs, he said. The only way to tell the difference between a compromised sales device and a regular one is that the debit or credit card in a tampered machine needs to be inserted almost entirely into the machine.